Down the street from the White House are numbers of homeless people, sleeping with rags and cardboard with no adequate food supply. Why? It doesn't make sense.
Sure, there are shelters to stay in that provide food, beds, running water but it's not enough. These shelters can only support so many people. What about those that get turned away at the door? There has got to be some way to help them! My mentally-ill uncle was homeless for a while; he stayed at a shelter for some of the time. You are never guaranteed a bed, even if you stayed there the previous night. It really is survival of the fittest: you have to be fit enough to wait in long lines to get into the shelter or you have to be tough enough to survive the night winds.
Some people don't understand how hard it can be to get back on your feet. People always say "Well, they can just get a job." I'd like to see you get a job when you don't have a hot meal to eat, a tub to bathe in or a bed to sleep in. And if you do get a job, you'll want to come home and relax in your warm house, watch some television with your feet propped up in the recliner. But then, you'll remember, your cardboard box is barely suitable for a dog!
I know we can't really afford to dish out welfare to everyone who asks for it but come on! Is this not America? There must be something we can do! We're spending so much money in Iraq when we could be using it in our own country! This country is going downhill. Build more shelters, allow people to give food to the homeless, be more caring! Don't scowl at the homeless man sitting on the side of the highway; give him a quarter at least! Please, no one deserves to be homeless.
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As a result of reasons I couldn't possibly tell you (as I'm not my mother) we ended up living in a shelter for 3 months my junior year of high school. Except for my best friend and her mom, no one knew what we were going through. My grades went down, and I still had to pretend like everything was fine. I'm just grateful we only went through what we went through. SO many homeless people have it a lot worse.
Agreed. There is definetely a "poor people are jsut lazy" mentality that runs through our society which detaches us from the really awful conditions people live in. And there are so few effective homeless programs, especially in big societies. Just today I saw an article that reported that Los Angeles hospitals have been dumping homeless patients on the streets. It's awful how we have no sympathy for those worse off than us.
its hard to grasp atrocities such as this occur in the US but yet we feel it is our duty to go out and fix the problems of other countries before we take the time to fix our own.
honestly i find the actions of the US to be a constant hypocrisy. but that may just be me ;p hehe
People always say "Well, they can just get a job." I'd like to see you get a job when you don't have a hot meal to eat, a tub to bathe in or a bed to sleep in.
It's not just that. Many people who are homeless do have jobs. However, the real trick is finding a job with a high enough income that you can actually afford to put some money aside and be able to make a rent payment each month.
Many working homeless leave their jobs each day to pick up a cheap dinner for their kids and them and return to their "home"--a car, a shelter, some are lucky enough to be able to live week to week in a cheap hotel, so long as the funding holds out.
Most working homeless live paycheck to paycheck, hoping and praying that nothing bad happens. A trip to the hospital for a prolonged fever, or the car breaking down might cost 3 weeks of sleeping in a hotel bed, and/or bus fare to get the kids to school each day.
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